She would go to say that, “New Mutants is about these teenagers who are just coming into their powers. It’s like watching mutants go through adolescence and they have no impulse control, so they’re dangerous. The only solution is to put them in a Breakfast Club detention/Cuckoo’s Nest institutional setting. It protects the people on the outside, but it’s strange and combustible inside.”

Snider even went so far as to compare the tone of the film to the Shining, stating that “We haven’t seen it as a superhero movie whose genre is more like The Shining than “we’re teenagers let’s save the world.”

Snider also stressed that “genre bending” is intentional when it comes to their upcoming X-Men universe films, saying that “If we’re going to make a superhero movie, we have to ask ourselves: “What’s our version? What’s a Fox Marvel film? When you look at films like Deadpool or Logan or the upcoming “New Mutants,” you’ll see they have their own personality. Great effort has been put into making sure they’re differentiated.”

If you are looking for a preview of the type “genre-bending” that New Mutants may deliver, look no further than FX’s Legion (which is also based on a character that debuted in the pages of the New Mutants comic books). Legion effectively blends elements of action, comedy, and horror with a quirky sensibility. If New Mutants is cut from a similar cloth, fans may be in for another unique take on a genre which certainly needs more creative vision.

New Mutants will be released on April 13th, 2018. Be sure to stay tuned to Horror News Network for further updates on this film and everything else in the world of horror.

Nick joined the website in 2015. His lifelong love of comics and horror began with Universal Monsters and the Incredible Hulk. He has fond memories of going to Waldbaum’s supermarket with his mother and being rewarded with a 3-pack of sealed comics. It’s been all downhill from there… Since those early days, his life has been immersed in four color action and scares on the silver screen.